I noticed the forum appears to crop instead of resizing images. I think this is only marginally better than simply rejecting the post and I suggested automatic resizing the images instead. I don't know how phpBB works under the hood but I think other phpBB forums have this functionality.

read:i'm too lazy to do this myself, why is this not automated like on facebook/iphone/whateverapp!

autoresizing images

is not what everybody wants/needs

puts a LOT of extra stress on the servers

means the images have to be stored on the server = lots of storage (and who's going to pay for that)

many people don't seem to realize that lots of text takes much less storage than just one image.the whole bible can be downloaded with 4 - 5 MB - that's less than an average mobile phone .jpg.i think the best solution would be to simply reject images beyond a certain file size.

debiman wrote:read:i'm too lazy to do this myself, why is this not automated like on facebook/iphone/whateverapp!

autoresizing images

is not what everybody wants/needs

puts a LOT of extra stress on the servers

means the images have to be stored on the server = lots of storage (and who's going to pay for that)

many people don't seem to realize that lots of text takes much less storage than just one image.the whole bible can be downloaded with 4 - 5 MB - that's less than an average mobile phone .jpg.i think the best solution would be to simply reject images beyond a certain file size.

Read: Everything was better in the 60s when you couldn't even connect to the Internet without manually dialing a telephone number. Lazy millennials are ruining everything with their always-on Internet connections and German efficiency. We should follow the Amish example!

THX1138b wrote:Read: Everything was better in the 60s when you couldn't even connect to the Internet without manually dialing a telephone number. Lazy millennials are ruining everything with their always-on Internet connections and German efficiency. We should follow the Amish example!

i'll just quote this priceless piece of teenage ramblings to preserve it from any possible future edits.

stevepusser wrote:Another good one that provide a thumbnail link, plus various downsized image links, and does not require registration, is https://postimages.org/

Whoops, looks like their security certificate expired a couple hours ago. Wake up guys--hope they fix that soon.

It is working now, and they even have a feature that creates thumbnails, etcautomatically. So does "imgur" . I know, image resizing and creating thumb nails is extremely tedious, and complicated, can be time consuming. That is why I read some documentation, and learned to use a few basic tools, so now all my images get resized automatically , and I don't need to depend on any forum software to do that. That also is why most storage sites also offer a automatic method of creatingthe thumb nails, and they all include documentation on using those features, for new users. This forum is not intended to be a image storage site, there is no reason we should have to do that for people that do not like to read instructions, and unfortunately we have not yet developed a technology that reads instructions, and the automatically follows them for those kind of people.Maybe some day we will.